Ryan Gosling Saves Blogger’s Life in New York City, Achieves Celebrity Good Samaritan Club Status

While you were running Twitter feeds from the perspective of an overweight Mad Men character who finishes her daughter’s ice-cream sundaes, Ryan Gosling was doing something important with his time: Saving lives. Well, saving a life. O.K., maybe saving a life. According to Laurie Penny, a 25-year-old British blogger and writer for the New Statesman, she narrowly avoided death just yesterday thanks to a heroic act by the Oscar nominee in Manhattan: “I literally, LITERALLY just got saved from a car by Ryan Gosling,” she announced via Twitter at 6:28 p.m. “Literally. That actually just happened. I was crossing 6th avenue in a new pink wig. Not looking the right way because I am from London. Ryan Gosling grabbed me away from a taxi.” Now, of course this raises a few major questions. . .

How is the lucky blogger certain that it was Ryan Gosling who steered her away from oncoming traffic? Did he have a strange Brooklyn accent even though he is from Canada? Was he holding a spooky skull diorama decorated with cigarettes? Did he show his ID? The victim revealed over Twitter that she was also unsure until she noticed one specific wardrobe choice: “Confession: I did a double-double-take because, initially, I thought it was @jedweightman. Then realised Jed would not wear double denim.”

Now that Penny has locked down the identity of Gosling with the same certainty as a DNA test, the media has assailed her with interview requests, so much so that she has begun responding to the public’s questions with escalating frustration.

In celebration of this news, your blogger—who is approximately the same age as the British blogger and as of this morning, also an owner of a bright pink wig—will stroll 6th Avenue on the lookout for anyone wearing double denim.

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